Wall cabinet for ironing machines



Patented Dec. 13,1927.

UNITED STATES MEAD HEDGLON, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

WALL CABINET FOR IRONING MACHINES.

Application fi1ed Apri1 so, 1927. Serial No. 188,014.

This invention relates to a wall-cabinet, designed particularly forstowing ironing machines'of the portable domestic type, and has for itsobject to provide novel construc- 5 tion and arrangement of the cabinet,whereby the ironing machine may be permanently attached to and supportedby the cabinet during the ironing, as well'as during the inactiveperiods, the cabinet preferably being permanently built in one of theinterior walls of a house and arranged to shield the machine from dust,dirt and tampering. The cabinet is preferably oblong and its lineardimension is disposed horizontally. One side of the cabinet is normallyopen and the said opening being closed, when the machine is stowed away,by the base that supports all of the ironing mechanism, the said basebeing hinged adjacent the open side of the cabinet and being swingablein a vertical plane for withdrawing and housing the machine. A furtherobject is to provide a cab-inet, whereby the machine is held in theoperative, as well as in the inoperative positions by gravity. A furtherobject is to provide foldable and extensible members that support themachine during the ironing periods at the'proper height from the floor,the said members cooperating with the hinges or other pivoting means formaintaining the machine rigid at the proper level. And a further objectis to provide an electric switch for controlling the current that drivesand heats the machine, the said switch being mounted inside the cabinetand being operated for shutting-off the current by the closing movementof the machine.

I attain these objects by the means set forth in the detaileddescription which follows, and as illustrated by the accompanyingdrawing, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical cross-section, taken on line1-1 of Fig.2; showing the ironing machine in the operative andinoperative positions. And Fig. 2 is a horizontal section, taken on line2--2 of Fig. 1; showing the machine in the operative position.

In the drawing, 2 represents an ordinary interior wall of a house,.inwhich an open- 50 ing 2' is shown. 3 represents my cabinet,

which comprises an oblong box, having top and bottom members 3' and 3,ends 3", and back 3.

,row movable horizontal strip or facing 4,

The front side 3 of the cabinet isv preferably normally open, .exceptfor a narat 4:, for rendering it swingable vertically, as shown in Fig.1, for enlarging the opening 3 for affording clearance to the machine,and a similar strip 4 forming the bottom of said opening, which ispreferably rigid to the bottom and end members 3 3", and is reinforcedby a cleat 4 The cabinet 3 may be rigidly secured to the wall 2 by anywell-known means.

The cabinet 3 is designed especially for housing domestic ironinmachines, which are usually electrically riven and heated, and areordinarily portable. The primary object of the cabinet is to provide aconvenient out-of-the-way place to stow the ironlng machine when not inuse, in order to protect it from dirt, injury and tampering,

, and to render the mach ne readily accessible when needed withoutrequiring itto be manually lifted and carried to and from the ironingposition, the arrangement of the cabinet being such as to enable theironing machine to be readily and quickly withdrawn or extended from thecabinet, and to be positively held at the proper level from the floorduring the ironing periods. To this end, the machine is preferablypermanently and swingably attached to the cabinet. .A brief descriptionof the ironing machine follows:

5 represents a plane wooden or other base, on which the combined ironingand driving mechanisms are permanently mounted and rendered movable, asone part. The machine proper comprises the usual padded ironing roll 6,which is generally rotated by a motor, as 7, the said roll being mountedin a fixed plan-e parallel to the base, by means of an upright casing 8,in which is disposed'the reduction gears, which are usually connected tothe motor by a clutch, as 7 and a gooseneck bracket 9, both of saidparts being rigidly secured to the base 5.' 10 represents the concaveironing shoe, which is preferably disposed below and concentric to theroll, and is usually heated by electricity or gas. The shoe 10 is movedtowards and away from the roll, by means of a lever 12, and an eccentricmechanism 12, said lever being disposed at the frontside of themachine,'near one end of a table 13, upon which the operator-may spreadthe articles prior to feeding them between the roll and shoe The ironingpressure is effected by springs 14, which are adjustably connected tothe forward edge of the shoe and are disposed near the opposite ends ofthe table 13, as shown.

The ironed articles as they emerge from the rear side of the rollusually gravitate to the base 5.

The ironing machine base is preferably permanently secured to thecabinet 3, and for this purpose the rear ed e of the base is swingablysecuredto the owermost horizontal strip or member, 4: by hinges 15. Bythis arrangement, the base may be swung in a vertical planesubstantially 90, as indicated by the full and dotted lines in Fig.1.The front opening 3 of the cabinet is preferably substantially the samesize and shape as the base, so that when the latter is swung upwardlyfor stowing the machine, the base fills the opening and is preferablydisposed flush with the strips 4: and 4 The bottom edge of the strip 4and the corresponding as well as the cabinet.

edge of the base 5 are preferably beveled for stopping and holding thebase flush with said strip. The strip 4 is preferably supported in theclosed position by stops 4. The forward edge of the base 5 is preferablysupported and held in true horizontal plane when the machine is extendedfor ironing, by means of a pair of braces or members, as 16-16, whichcomprise similar sections, 1616", which are respectively pivoted to eachother, to the base 5, and to the top wall of the cabinet, as indicatedin the drawing. When these braces are properly constructed and applied,the ironing machine will be held at th right angle to the face of thecabinet, as shown in Fig. 1. When thironing machine is disposed inthecabinet 3, the goose-neck 9 preferably engages a block or pillow, as 17,which is secured to the bottom 3, and whose top surfacev is covered withan suitable cushion material, -as-17. By this arrangement, the pillow 17absorbs all shock that may be occasioned by careless or too rapidfolding and stowing ofthe machine, and prevents injury to the machine,The electric current for operating the motor 7, may be controlled by aswitch 18, which is shown mounted on the back wall of the cabinet theoperating lever 18 of which is disposed in the path of a pin 19 carriedby the bracket 9, for the purpose of automatically shutting-0E the morepleasing to the eye, by carving or otherwlse ornamenting the bottom faceof the base 5, in a well-known manner.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, is-

1. In a wall cabinet for motor driven ironing machines, a box adaptedtoibe secured in an opening .in'a wall and having. an open front, amember for closing said open front of the box, a motor driven ironingmachine secured to the member, means to movably connect said member tothe box to enable the ironing machine to be moved into and out of thebox, a motor controlling switch within the box, and means carried by themachine to actuate the switch and open the latter upon closing movementof the member. 1 i

2. A wall-cabinet for stowing an electrically operated ironing machine,comprisingan oblong box permanently built in the wall and spaced fromthe floor, one side of the box being normally open, a base, an ironingmachine secured to the base, means for pivotally securing the base tothe box below said opening, whereby the base may be swung towards andfrom the box in a vertical plane, said base being substantially thesamesize and shape as the opening so as to close-the opening, means to holdthe base when extended at right'angles to the open side of the box, aswitch for controlling the current that operates the machine, and meanson the ironing machine operable upon the closing movement of the basefor shutting 01f the current.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature.

ME HEDGLON.

